When this shot was made
I despaired, thinking only
That I looked so old
I despaired, thinking only
That I looked so old
It is Haiku My Heart Friday again and here you have mine. Go to Rebecca's place to find more. And please- join us! Haiku makes you slow down and tease out the sweetest meat of the fruit of your thoughts.
Never a bad thing.
I think you look 40 in that photo!
ReplyDeleteLove the haiku, though. Love it.
Fabulous foto! And just as fabulous haiku...
ReplyDeleteOld is a state of mind.
it's not hard to see you at 16,
ReplyDeletelooking at you here....
in this softening light.
golden.
you.
your
words.
this skimming down...
you move me...and take me places i long to go...
okay,
ReplyDeleteyou're gorgeous,
and I love the way you took that photo.
and yes,
isn't that poem by Lucille Clifton just wonderful..
very cool photo -- your arms are buff and radiant -- and the haiku is terrific
ReplyDeleteNice photo.
ReplyDeletewow, really? I at first thought it was May!
ReplyDeleteI did, too. Thought you were May at first, I mean.
ReplyDeleteStop being so hard on yourself, goddammit. I love the photo.
Just a teen. Great Haiku. Unique.
ReplyDeleteActually that's a really nice photo. When was it taken?
ReplyDeleteLove the Haiku and you look FABULOUS in that picture! I mean it.
ReplyDeleteMs. Trouble- It was pretty dark.
ReplyDeleteDelphyne- Which makes me a hundred and two.
rebecca- Looking back, I think I might have been a goddess at sixteen. Ah lah.
deb- Yes! What a wonderful poem!
Elizabeth- How did I slip so badly in the past few years? Dang!
Syd- Thanks, sweet man.
Bethany- Yep. Dark.
Ms. Bastard-Beloved- I like it now too.
Because now I'm old.
Abi- A teen in the sense of about-to-be-very-old?
Rebecca- Probably about two years ago.
Lois- Well. Again. The light was very low.
Nice haiku, you look good in the photo:)
ReplyDeleteIf that's really what old
ReplyDeleteLooks like then what old looks like
Looks pretty damn fine
O! Poopy! I can't think of that saying, o here it is, "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." YOU look SWEET and like YOU are daydreaming!in your pic!
ReplyDeleteA lovely photo... and your words touch a secret place in all of us. But – you look great! :)
ReplyDelete~Deb
Pretty and pretty, so pretty.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny that we don't feel as old as our years tell us we are? And isn't it true that our years create a beautiful patina, because we're wise as well as beautiful?
ReplyDeleteStopped by to check out the Friday Haiku. I am not at all disappointed in the photograph or the words.
ReplyDeletePeace.
If that's what old looks like, sign me up.
ReplyDeleteShe hopes for answers,
ReplyDeletebut fears there are none—yet grace
somehow sustains her.
Cobblestone Haiku
I thought you looked soft.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing bits of you.
Happy Friday !